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I saw this thanks to . It makes the point that use of a good ELD in trucks forces everyone– the firm, the trucker, support staff, and customers to focus on hitting the marks for serving the truck supply chain. This should make customer service improve all around, but also will save considerable money in administrative costs if properly integrated with other systems to make visualization easy. The article below identifies some of the extended cost savings and service improvements that can be made.

Interesting piece about automated customs bond filings by truckers. It is starting to be a reality, but there are still issues like airports not accepting them, and adoption issues– resistance from truckers to using the online forms.

Later in the piece it points out that truckers must pay a fee for each transaction on the system. For larger companies that isn’t maybe a big deal, but for independent truckers it’s one more nail in the coffin.

The headline is a gross misstatement of what this innovative startup is trying. They want to write software that makes existing trucks, perhaps with a few sensors added, able to self-drive on the freeways. A trucker will be in the cab at all times. This approach is much more likely to be practical soon; there’s almost no chance that drivers will be eliminated from the cabs of vehicles soon. Politicians and insurance companies won’t have it, nor will the trucking companies themselves; the liability issues are way too daunting.

At the autonomous driving startup Starsky Robotics, the present and future of U.S. employment ride in the same cab.